Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

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Polish journalist and writer (1914-2005)

JournalistsLived 1914 to 2005 · aged 90

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Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army.

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Zdzisław Jeziorański

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański on Radio Free Europe, 3 May 1952

Monument to Jan Nowak-Jeziorański in Warsaw (bronze), sculptor: Wojciech Gryniewicz

Awards 25

2003honorary citizen of Warsaw

2002honorary citizen of Gdańsk

2002Diamond Microphone

2001Award Józef Tischner

2001honorary citizen of Kraków

2000honorary citizen of Poznan

2000honorary citizen of Wrocław

1999Kisiel Prize

1999Wiktory

1998Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

1996Presidential Medal of Freedom

1994Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)

1993Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

1993Gold Microphone

1990Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

1944Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Democracy Service Medal

Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta

honorary doctor of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow

Armia Krajowa Cross

King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom

honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw

honorary doctor of the University of Wrocław

honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Cross of Valour (1939)

Connected to Jan 6

Irena SantorAlso won Diamond Microphone

Hanna SuchockaAlso won honorary citizen of Poznan

Krzysztof KolbergerAlso won Gold Microphone

Enrique BolañosAlso won Democracy Service Medal

Jan Krzysztof BieleckiAlso won Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic)Anna WierzbickaAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw

About this person

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army. He is best remembered for his work as an emissary shuttling between the commanders of the Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London and other Allied governments which gained him the nickname "Courier from Warsaw", and for his participation in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he worked as the head of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe, and later as a security advisor to the US presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded him with America's highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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